Meet Bishop Eaton

The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton was elected as the ELCA’s fourth presiding bishop at the 2013 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. Born in Cleveland on April 2, 1955, Eaton earned a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School...

Luther and Lutheranism

Martin Luther was eight years old when Christopher Columbus set sail from Europe and landed in the Western Hemisphere. Luther was a young monk and priest when Michaelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel in Rome...

ELCA Good Gifts Catalog

Assignment Process

Assignment completes candidacy for all people, including those ordained in another Lutheran church or Christian tradition, moving them toward first call and admittance to the appropriate roster in the ELCA...

Haiti – a reflection from Florida

Dan

​Mary Delasin is one of the Synod Hunger Leaders in Florida-Bahamas
Synod. This Synod has been instrumental in the Haiti Earthquake
response as the companion along with the ELCA of the Lutheran Church of
Haiti. I’m sharing a recent note from Mary sent to Hunger Leaders.
Thanks Mary for letting me share your note.

Thanks everyone for the continued prayers and support for Haiti.

Dan. (Daniel Rift, Director ELCA World Hunger and Disaster Appeal)

A note from Mary Delasin, Florida-Bahamas Synod :
Lots of exciting things are happening with the Haitian relief effort!
Louis Dorvilier, Director of ELCA Disaster Response, is in Haiti right
now working with the pastors of Eglise Lutherienne d’Haiti (Lutheran
Church of Haiti). It is a model for how accompaniment can work on a
grand scale. They are setting priorities together and working together
to carry out a plan that is sustainable in the long term. And working to
meet the immediate needs of the people in spite of the overwhelming
situation. All of the Haitian pastors and people I have spoken to are
all very clear, they want sustainable change for the long term this
time. They are tired of so many organizations who do not get past
immediate aid, and do not work to change life through sustainable
solutions. So often things are looked at through the eyes of what we
would want vs. what Haitians need to rebuild a better life for
generations.

So much of what we learned in (our Hunger work) is
applicable to Haiti. In seeing close up what those World Hunger and
Disaster Response funds support, there isn’t a better way to truly make
an imprint on this planet for generations to come. God is good. May He
richly bless you all in your work!

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